"I hear that doctors can now make a man half pigeon if he dares to have a mixture of pubic hairs and pubic feathers; or if you prefer a beautiful fountain-surgery a continual waterfall can come from your ass."

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It was no wonder that at Christmas parties or barrooms he sat and drank in silence feeling like a buffoon for not acting like one.

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In ways he was a buffoon: his taciturn ways that thwarted the lighthearted frivolity of a world conceived out of motion was the substance that often caused contemptuous laughs.

Sex, she thought, as she watched his body hit the winds, was being massaged by one's own hormones, turned on by oneself, or more accurately one's sense of pleasure, and making love to fantasies of one's mind rather than the individual locked into one's body.

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"Does he want me to think this breakfast of his is my reward for this bit of a roll in the hay?"

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The common workers left out of both, if given a high enough salary, would not be anarchists or proletariat revolutionaries if they had enough money to go to action packed movies or sports stadiums, buy whores once in a while, or other benign conduits of savagery.

Outside a little physical prostitution, on weekends she would freelance her "bull shit sketches"(her "mental prostitution) that went with the little "asinine" sentiments that Hallmark Greeting Cards sent to her; and then the week's work would be, for the most part, over.

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She loathed "prostituting" herself "to assholes" but the way she looked at it, everything was a form of prostitution from the time that one washed and blow-dried her hair that was cut in such a way that was aesthetically pleasing to "Western farts controlling economic institutions" to rolls that bound human thoughts in its limited pages, the social interaction one engaged in to stay sane, and the tricks one did to get one's little bowl of Alpo dog food.

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She lit the four or five candles that were on the kitchen table; shuffled the deck; drank four cans of beer quickly; and then mumbled a bitching mumble about having to prostitute herself.

Chapter Twenty-Four She could guess that the quick entrance into the trailer park, if it were such, was a reaction to her, the nefarious whore, whom he had ridden in sync to a female's need for pleasure many years earlier.

She could not shoo away the pesty fly that was as pesty as Mormon flies (those sententious dragon fly missionaries who had knocked on her door earlier that week--Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormon flies so succulent and "so fuckable," whom she had reluctantly rejected from her door).

If she hadn't been on her guard or had been born a half-wit she could have easily believed in love and bliss at every turn.

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It was one of her presents to Adagio that she should sit there on the bleachers stuffing these frankfurters or weenies into her mouth and staring onto this little sea of intermittent tackle and throw action (the object being thrown like an irregular, phallic weenie).

So her uncle and male cousins disparaged her for what time she got up, how she combed her hair, for being left- handed, how she held her fork, the amount of time that she spent in the bathroom, where she sat, the position she sat in, why she read so much, why she was spending so much time reading in her "cage," that she was probably shedding hair on the living room sofa, why she put her legs together so prim and proper at the supper table, and why she opened her legs like a tomboy or a lesbian cunt.

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D'you think Betty'll come behind the two of you with a pooper-scooper to keep your ass from being expelled.

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And even though she was a true woman for him, catering to family matters and allowing herself to be his whore (he asking her questions about men she slept with so that it would excite him enough to maximize his pleasure when impaling within her) she told herself that she could do it without needing art as a crutch.

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The historical origin of the owl is, of course, the historical origin of the bird which probably evolved from one of two groups of dinosaurs, the--oh shit, I can't remember-- during the early part of the Jurassic period.

"For lots of reasons: a personal life that is shit, an idea I wasnOt sure what to do with until you came along, annoyed at being annoyed by this large crowd as if they need to be quiet for me."

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"Well, there's got to be a reason for me having your ass around so you come out here and help me get down from here," she said.

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The thought even occurred to her that she should get her boy from the provincial rednecks of Kansas and transform him with exposure to the world; and she would have done just that had there not been such a cloying and bitter after- taste to all this enlightenment amassing itself within her.

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In a small way, she saw sanity in this defying of convention that a woman's boobs were erotic armaments which, unless locked away in a blouse and a brassiere, would thwart assiduous man to recidivistic patterns where his amorous instincts would cause him to malinger from work.

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Before that I thought of you as a caring mother and before that -- " "A disgusting whore?"

It was a mere caprice, she argued, like disliking a passing woman for wearing the color, pink, or wanting to make love to all sailors for wearing their clean, white, and neatly pressed uniforms.

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She did not want to upset him as she had before, for not only would it suggest to him that he should not have married her but it would aver to herself her own intransigence and a social ineptness that was of damaged whores and spinsters.

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She wasn't sure what they said but she did hear the words "airport bathroom graffiti" which made her grimace not for the ignorance of those who were part of this consensus (she didn't "give a flying fuck" about what they thought in the slightest) but that these bereft hollow heads epitomized what the droves of men would think.

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Now the price to absolve sins and blowjobs are both the same: 500 dollars -- US, of course.

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"To think that I would have married this fine gentleman to such a blasphemous whore."

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She could tell that her profound buffoon had only feigned this drowning in a sensitive abyss.

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My parents just went on a working trip forever and to you they are remarkable people; I was shipped off to you, and your old fart of a husband."

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I dare because it is my telephone call at my expense and I'll call anyone I want and remind him, her, or them that they are old farts if they are indeed old farts."

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"And if anyone tries to finger my clit the way your husband did they should be happy to be called old farts."

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All people had to prostitute themselves a little to make a living but, according to Gabriele's assessment, women who contemplated marriage were complete whores.

The isolationist declaring her own frigid country of one, the frigid rationalist watching the movement of instinctual creatures of romance blowing like bits of trash caught in vortexes of wind, the nighttime whore advocate as opposed to the billions of daytime whores who espoused the Puritan work ethic: she was one of their PT Barnum freaks at the circus museum and the director welcomed back that which would spark a bit of public intrigue.

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This way she could dress herself in peace and quickly abscond from sleazy predilections and proclivities that might have made up the baser components of oneOs nature but were puny in defining herself.

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We can live in cardboard shacks or tree houses but we donOt need this type of shit cluttering up space and time.O This was what she would say, or something more simplified that was along these lines."

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She argued that one behavior was no more or less slutty than the other.

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She felt delivered from being thought of as the slut that she was beginning to feel that she was.